Etymologies

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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In fact, it appears that much of the paradigmatic conceptual framework they used to assess disease etiology is rooted as far back as the Bantu era of the third millennium BCE, and some features of the paradigm may be as deep-seated as the early Niger-Congo era of many millennia prior to that. 18

We begin with a look at Mesoamerican etiology, that is, the conceptual framework precontact Mexicans used to explain their illnesses, an essential starting point for understanding indigenous health concepts in the colonial period.

By contrast, when Freud speaks in April of "a fresh confirmation of paternal" etiology "that is, a further (fresh) confirmation of a theory which he has already previously taken as confirmed ” he is concerned with the later theory.